EN2411 · Language in the Media

The course aims to: explore the role that English language plays in circulating ideas using symbols, narratives and information across a range of media sites within a range of socio-cultural contexts. develop an understanding of how English language and other semiotic systems are utlilised and articulated in media sites and texts by social actors and agents as discursive makers of meaning and shapers of society. enable students to become acquainted with the key issues that they encounter in culture, society, politics and everyday life through the language of media texts and narratives and to…